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Action on Investor Safeguards

The new powers to safeguard investors sought by the Securities and Exchange Commission will soon be considered by the House. It is about time. The reform bill, based on the comprehensive study of the securities industry issued last year, passed the Senate long ago; but it remained bottled up in the House Commerce Committee and then in the House Rules Committee, before being finally cleared for action.

July 04, 1964

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